"Even though I am poor and I have AIDS, I am happy. Each day brings hope." Ximei Ximei, a documentary filmed in China over a seven-year period by Andy Cohen and Gaylen Ross, follows the HIV-positive titular protagonist and plain-spoken... more
"Even though I am poor and I have AIDS, I am happy. Each day brings hope." Ximei
Ximei, a documentary filmed in China over a seven-year period by Andy Cohen and Gaylen Ross, follows the HIV-positive titular protagonist and plain-spoken community leader named Ximei, a local "peasant" woman in her thirties. Ximei is filmed as she negotiates the government bureaucracy in remote Henan province while acting as a community activist and advocate for the 300,000 other people in the region that developed HIV/AIDS as a result of a national government program during the 1990s, whose goal it was to increase blood bank reserves at a minimal cost. The program offered a month's wages (about five dollars) to blood donators. Tragically and stupidly, the public health workers in the province didn't decontaminate their transfusion equipment. As a result, many local residents that took advantage of the opportunity to earn extra money, contracted HIV, either from coming in contact with contaminated medical equipment or by receiving transfusions of untested, tainted blood during treatments for an accident or disease.
Soil salinity negatively affects growth and development as well as yield and fiber quality of cotton. The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for traits related to salt tolerance could facilitate the development of cotton... more
Soil salinity negatively affects growth and development as well as yield and fiber quality of cotton. The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for traits related to salt tolerance could facilitate the development of cotton cultivars with salt tolerance. The objective of this study was to map
Balogh, Mátyás Isolation and Pretended Revitalization: the identity of a Tibetanized Mongol community The Henan Mongols, a Tibetanized community of Oirat-Mongols numbering about 35 000 people, live in the eastern periphery of Qinghai... more
Balogh, Mátyás Isolation and Pretended Revitalization: the identity of a Tibetanized Mongol community
The Henan Mongols, a Tibetanized community of Oirat-Mongols numbering about 35 000 people, live in the eastern periphery of Qinghai province in China. The Henan Mongol Autonomous County (), where this community resides, is part of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (). Concerning their language and customs, the Henan Mongols are thoroughly Tibetanized, but are still aware of their Mongol ancestry and in the past few decades they have taken certain measures to vest qualities perceived as Mongol upon their community and place of residence. My paper investigates these measures and points out that what is often regarded as revitalization in Henan is, in fact, a creation of imaginary qualities that locals associate with Mongol idenity.
